Tony Pasquariello - Evolution...Buisnessmen

Derrick Jensen explains an advertisement he saw for the University of California Berkeley Extension. It is a picture of a man sitting at his desk, hands on top of his head with his feet resting on his desk, dressed in a white shirt, black tie, business pants and shoes. Next to his shoes are four footprints, a bird print, a small mammal’s, a bears and closest to the man’s shoes a bare human footprint. The caption read: “Evolution…doesn’t have to take a million years.” He explains that this advertisement implies through a million years, through birds, mammals, all creatures; evolution has been leading toward businessmen, and more broadly toward this culture. All of evolution has taken place so that we can wear uncomfortable clothes and sit at desks. This doesn’t sound the least bit enticing to me, and it is a bloody shame that it is the truth. I have friends that have graduated last year, and are on the verge of graduating in a few weeks, and all they are worried about is finding a shitty job in this poor economy, to get started on living on their own and settled in with a boring career. I have no intentions of wearing a suit to a 9-5 job sitting at a desk right after I graduate, if ever. This world is massive, and beautiful, and I have explored but a small slither of the east coast of the United States. There is much more out there for me to see, witness, explore, learn, and there is no way a shitty job with a nice pay check will stop me from doing so.